ON 2024 Budget & Housing

Ontario budget has almost NOTHING NEW for affordable housing  Ontario’s 2024 budget dashed hopes for new housing investments. Released last week, the budget provides no new money for capital funding to build new non-profit housing. Nothing. There is new money for housing-related infrastructure and a bit of new money to operate supportive housing, some of … Read more

Ontario Budget Has Almost Nothing for Affordable Housing

Indwell’s latest newsletter has an interesting article on the challenges people who’ve experienced homelessness face when adapting to being housed. https://indwell.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Indwell-Winter-Newsletter-2024-WEB.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Winter%20Newsletter%202023&utm_content=Winter%20Newsletter%202023+CID_fff13dadc9d7ce0c2c46c33259cf997e&utm_source=Emal%20marketing%20software&utm_term=here

Even with Stable Housing, the Transition from Homelessness can be Difficult

Indwell’s latest newsletter has an interesting article on the challenges people who’ve experienced homelessness face when adapting to being housed. https://indwell.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Indwell-Winter-Newsletter-2024-WEB.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Winter%20Newsletter%202023&utm_content=Winter%20Newsletter%202023+CID_fff13dadc9d7ce0c2c46c33259cf997e&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=here

Even the RCMP are Worried About Rising Unaffordable Housing and Wealth Extremes

In a document on the potential threats to Canada’s security, the RCMP identifies “popular resentment” caused by “declining standards of living for the younger generation” as a trend that could cause disruptive change that might require an RCMP response. Two key sources of that resentment are the fact that many Canadians under 35 are unlikely … Read more

Saving Lives

Kitchener’s A Better Tent City is a tiny cabin village that saves lives. Learn more online on March 23 On Zoom, you can meet Nadine Green, co-founder and manager of Kitchener’s A Better Tent City, where she lives in one of the 42 tiny cabins in Canada’s first tiny cabin community for people formerly experiencing … Read more